[GNC] Handling personal yet-to-pay bills

Gyle McCollam gmccollam at live.com
Sat Oct 16 10:29:18 EDT 2021


Mattia,
You could go the more accounting route and use an accounts payable account or you could do what I do, since I use it for personal accounting purposes, and just record it in the usual account say debit electric and credit your bank account (Checking I assume) on the date you actually are going to pay it.  What that does, it shows your "future balance".  GNUCash shows a blue line at the current date and all future payments below the line. You could either write the check now or refer to your checking account to see when you actually need to write the checks.  I was a bit surprised that you can't have those expenses automatically deducted when they are due.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at mapreri.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:59 AM
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Subject: [GNC] Handling personal yet-to-pay bills

Hi people!

I'm a new gnucash user, starting pretty much now.

I'll start by saying that despite being a self-employed contractor (and
such I am making use of some of the business features of gnucash), my
fiscal position in my country (Italy) doesn't impose me any kind of
obligation concerning account reports.  As such the focus of my set up
is really personal, and for now I'm not trying to do things like
figuring my tax filings from this.  Furthermore I'm allowed to mix "my"
money and "my business" money, so effectively my assets are mixed.

I have been looking for a more featureful tool than a crude spreadsheet
to track all of my assets (and changes to them), that span multiple
banks and brokerages (and I also believe I do relatively complex/unusual
things that I'd love to be able to track, but I'll come back at a later
moment to those).  In fact I've been quite happy to discover that the
grand total was actually more than what I thought I had at hand :D So
thank you to the devs for this program that for now made me very
satisfied! :)


With that out of the way, today I would like to start with asking the
wider community how you'd suggest to track "personal bills" that come
and needs to be paid.  I'm referring to things like utility bills
(phone, electricity, etc) or tax payments that needs to be done;
especially those payments that are done manually and don't direct debit
to the checking account or credit card.
I'd like to have those kind of things filed in even if the actual
payment has not been instructed yet, in which case it should count
toward a liability (since after all it would an A/P).  That would likely
also help me remind me of the deadlines.
I'm aware of the "bills" feature (that I already started to use with a
business vendor, and looks like it's behaving exactly as I'd expect),
but I'd like to double check with you if as a user in my situation I'm
expected to use the same "business feature" also for personal things?


Thanks in advance for your support and sorry for being long-winded!

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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